Ocean temperatures may be quietly protecting the world from a global drought catastrophe. By analyzing more than a century of climate data, researchers discovered that droughts rarely spread across ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), in collaboration with international partners, have shown that ocean temperature patterns help limit the global spread of droughts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Early signs of a possible La Niña fall and winter are emerging in some climate models, federal forecasters announced July 10. La ...

Scientists have long focused on rising temperatures to understand how climate change is reshaping the natural world. But ...

Global temperatures have taken an unexpected sharp climb in recent years, prompting scientists to reconsider how some ...

The warming El Nino weather phenomenon could return later this year as its cooling opposite La Nina fades away, the United ...

A team of researchers has tackled a deceptively simple question that has long puzzled climate scientists: why does the entire planet never dry out at the same time? Their analysis, drawn from about ...

A new study calculated that an unusual recent twist in the warming and cooling cycle that includes El Niño and its counterpart La Niña can help explain the scientific mystery of why Earth’s already ...

Switzerland is warming faster than the planet, and new climate scenarios warn of more heat waves, droughts, and less snow in ...

Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being ...

Scientists have discovered that El Niño and La Niña could become far more powerful and predictable as the planet warms. By 2050, the tropical Pacific may hit a tipping point, locking ENSO into strong, ...